Tamarix ramosissima has bi-seasonal flowering and fruit-setting characteristics. This study compared the morphology and germination characteristics of seeds from Tamarix ramosissima plants during the spring flowering period and the summer flowering period. The results are as follows: there is no significant difference in morphology, such as size and thousand-seed weight, between seeds from diff...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in transplant patients and the leading viral cause of birth defects after congenital infection. The glycoprotein complexes gH/gL/gO and gH/gL/UL128/UL130/UL131A (Pentamer) are key targets of the human humoral response against HCMV and are required for HCMV entry into fibroblasts and endothelial/epithelial cells, respective...

Consider the tensor product of finite dimensional vector spaces V ⊗ W . We have an action of GL(V ) on V ⊗W induced by standard action on V . Similarly the action of GL(W ) on W gives us an action on V ⊗W . These actions of GL(V ) and GL(W ) on V ⊗W clearly commute with one another, so we have a joint action of GL(V )×GL(W ) on V ⊗W . Let S•(V ) and Λ•(V ) denote the symmetric and exterior alge...

All GL (n) covariant star-body-valued valuations on convex polytopes are completely classified. It is shown that there is a unique nontrivial such valuation. This valuation turns out to be the so-called “intersection operator”—an operator that played a critical role in the solution of the Busemann-Petty problem. Introduction. A function Z defined on the set K of convex bodies (that is, of conve...

We have examined the linkage between salt concentration and temperature for the equilibrium binding of the tetrameric Escherichia coli single-stranded binding (SSB) protein to three single-stranded nucleic acids, poly(U), dA(pA)69, and dT(pT)69, by van't Hoff analysis and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). For SSB binding to poly(U) in its (SSB)65 mode, the equilibrium association constant...

The extract of licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra L.) has been widely used for many centuries in the traditional Chinese medicine as native anti-allergic agent. Glycyrrhizin (GL), a triterpenoid-saponin, extracted from the roots of licorice is the most effective compound for inflammation and allergic diseases in human body. The biological and pharmacological studies revealed that GL possesses many ph...

Using a combination of quantum chemistry and cluster size distribution dynamics, we study the heterogeneous nucleation n-butanol water onto sodium chloride (NaCl)10 seeds at different butanol saturation ratios relative humidities. We also investigate how is affected by seed through comparing (NaCl)5, (NaCl)10, (NaCl)25 electrical charge (Na10Cl9)+, (Na9Cl10)− seeds. Butanol common working fluid...

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa GSM3 isolated from dye contaminated soil was able to degrade Reactive Violet 5 completely as a sole source of carbon (300 mgL) within 20 h under static condition. The organism exhibited good decolorization ability in the pH ranges from 5.0 to 9.0 and temperature from 30 to 40C respectively. The optimum degradation was observed at 37C and pH 7. The maximum concentratio...